The Summer, 2003
netparty was extraordinary in many ways. We had lots of people who came
from all over, and we all had a great time. Several weeks before the
netparty, so many people had RSVP'd their intent to attend the
netparty due to word-of-mouth transmission of the news, that no
announcement was made to the doom news sites due to all space already
being filled.

The first person to arrive was Ogreslayer (from Midlothian, Virginia)
on Thursday afternoon. BahdKo (Stephens City, Virginia) arrived in a
group with Morpheus (Montreal, Canada), NC (Turku, Finland) and
Ocelot (Helsinki, Finland) Thursday evening. On Thursday night,
Dominus (Dallas, Texas) was picked up from Dulles Airport, and a few
hours later (early Friday morning), Toke (Tulsa, Oklahoma) was picked
up from Reagan
Airport.

Devastation (Halifax, Canada) was expected Mid-day Friday, but a freak
power outage
occurred all across the east coast as soon as his plane touched down in
Ottawa. So, we waited, and he waited in a hotel room for power to be
restored to the airports so that his connecting flight could leave for
Dulles.

DevastatioN finally showed up Saturday evening,
24 hours later than he had intended. He was immedietely surrounded by
cameras and at least one video recorder to make sure that what he was
wearing would not be missed by the world.

Ogreslayer

BahdKo

Morpheus

NC

Ocelot

Dominus

Toke

Novotny

Tellz

DevastatioN

BahdKo and Morpheus took pictures with digital cameras, and Toke
brought a camcorder that was able to output to a TV tuner card. AVI's
that are extracted from Toke's camcorder are being made available as
they
are created, and pictures can be found throughout this page.

The netparty setup and coordination was done by BahdKo, but some others
helped with logistics. Morpheus chipped in to help with the expenses
for the barbeque. The two white tables seen in some of the pics
were originally the property of Greensting (who was unable to attend
the LAN this time around). The monitor that DevastatioN used was a
spare monitor supplied by Toke, who despite flying in, managed to bring
two monitors total to the lan (he also gave this spare monitor to
BahdKo to keep for the next LAN when people fly in). BahdKo's mom,
Sandy, helped coordinate food on Saturday and Sunday, and DevastatioN's
dad Paul helped with the barbeque on Saturday night.

On Friday night, Dominus made spaghetti for everyone. And it was
really,
really fucking good. He also made homemade habernero salsa to eat
with chips, and for people who like extremely unbelieveably hot salsa,
it was presumably really good (for the rest of us, it was dangerous).
Saturday evening, Sandy and Paul grilled up hamburgers and hot dogs.

And of course, a lot of doom was played. There were games on Map1,
Judas23_, Dwango5 Map1, Dwango5 Map2, Shoot!!, Map7 (Dominus
primarily), Dweller2 Maps 9, 11, and 16, and probably a few other maps
as well. There were also several games of Deathtag ('Dwangotag'), which
included one game that was neverending. In the last Dwangotag game, the
teams consisted of Dominus+Ocelot vs. NC+Devastation, and neither team
could complete the game according to the game rules. Both teams
achieved a score of 5, but neither team could exit. The collective
frags between the players is believed to have been over a thousand when
the players finally got frustrated enough to call that Dwangotag game a
draw.